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Can following a conference on Twitter substitute for attending the meeting?
How much information and insight from a conference can be gained on Twitter for those who stay home?
Over the last week, I’ve been running an experiment to answer these two questions. Instead of going to EDUCAUSE 2018 (10/30-11/2) in Denver, I followed the conference on #EDU18.
The good news, if you are an organizer and host of professional and academic conferences, is that Twitter is not a substitute for attendance. Twitter in no shape or form replicates the experience of physically attending a meeting with peers.
